Last week we took a strong team of track and field athletes to the Central Zone Athletics Champs. This is a great chance to come up against all the local schools. Dio achieved some outstanding results! Well done to all who qualified to compete at this event and congratulations to our placegetters below:

We are looking forward to Swimming Sports tomorrow! The heats are detailed below for our competitive swimmers. If you are competing in these heats then you will need to meet at the pool at 8.20am for roll call and races will begin at 8.35am.

See you there and don't forget your sunscreen and hat!

Championship Swimming Heats 2019

Championship Swimming Heats 2019

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We are now preparing for another exciting year of sport at Dio! Sign-up for Terms 1 - 3 sports are now open online via EnrolMy. Click on the link below to make your choice for from our amazing options. The Co-Curricular guide provides you with detailed information about our options and the EnrolMy website is the link to sign-up once you have chosen your options.

One of the highlights of the school calendar is our school Swimming Sports and this takes place next Wednesday 13th February at the school pool. This an awesome event and we encourage friends and family to join us for a day in the sun.

See below for an outline of the events for the day. All heats will take place in the morning and there will also be a lot of fun events in addition to the competitive races.

A great day for all and if you have any queries then please get in touch with our Sports Department - sports@wdsg.school.nz.

Athletics Day quickly follows Swimming Sports on Thursday 21st February and is another action packed day which the whole school are involved in. Check out the days programme below and we look forward to seeing you all there!

If you have any queries please contact the Sports Department - sports@wdsg.school.nz

Lisa Britton Cup for the rower with the most points based on starts - 1st, 2nd or 3rd throughout the full season

Isobel Watson

O’Leary Cup for the Most Promising Novice Rower

Georgia Jefferis

Baker Cup for the most committed, reliable and enthusiastic sports person with a positive attitude and responsible at boat loading and unloading

Holly Mills

Hodges Cup for the coxswain with most points based on starts - 1st, 2nd or 3rd throughout the full season

Emma Barker

Krielen Cup awarded to a senior rower who has shown resilience, determination and commitment to rowing over four years. They display good leadership, mentoring to the junior members of the club, uphold the ideals of Dio Rowing and have achieved high-performance levels in their own rowing.

Emma Barker

Snowsports

Charlotte Collier - Jarvis Cup for the Most Promising Skier

Meg Walden - Jarvis Cup for the Most Outstanding Skier

Squash

Hannah Wallbank - Most Improved Novice Squash Player

Jenna Foot - Bunn Cup for Most Improved Squash Player in the top senior team

Caitlin Evison - Bunn Trophy for the Most Outstanding Squash Player of the year

Tennis

Loren Williams - McCartney Cup for Excellence in Junior Tennis

Zoe Clapcott Hodgson Cup for Excellence in Tennis

Touch

Caitlyn Parrot - Most Improved Touch Player

Eva Kessels - Thompson Trophy for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Dio Touch

Tiana Thompson - Young Trophy for Most Outstanding Touch Player

Water Polo

Jorja Scott - Most Promising Junior Water Polo Player

Georgia Grant - Contribution to Water Polo

Teri MacDonald - Most Outstanding Water Polo Player

DIO OLD GIRLS’ SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

Tarryn Davey (Class of 2013)

SENIOR BLUES

Senior Blues are awarded to students in Year 11, 12 and 13 who have excelled in their sports code. Senior Blues in more than one sport:

SPORTING EXCELLENCE AWARDS

awarded to students who have excelled on a national or international level in a sports code which is not an official Waikato Diocesan school sport or they do not compete in a school team. Because Dio is not involved in the coordination of their sport they do not qualify for School Blues Awards. With these awards we recognise and acknowledge their outstanding achievements.

Emily Jin - Table Tennis

Sophie Lewis - Wakeboarding

Sophie Liefting - Syncronised Swimming

Abbie Osborn - BMX

Nina White - Boxing

MAJOR AWARDS

Awarded to the student in each year level who has the best all-round sporting record, represented and excelled in at least one school sport and been fully involved in all aspects of the school sports programme.

Year 9 Sport Cup

Laura Littlejohn

Year 10 Sport Cup

Hannah Morgan

Junior Sports Award

Awarded to a junior sportswoman who has excelled in sport both at school and at the regional or national level:

Alyxandra Jones

Senior Sports Shield

Year 13 students who have achieved their Blues in their final year of school.

Allyssa Babington

Emma Barker

Harriet Berry

Georgia Bodle

Katie Hartley

Brianna Hayes

Emily Irvine

Courtney King

Olivia King

Janneke Kuper

McKenzie Milne

Eva Parkinson

Grace Soo Choon

Tiana Thompson

Claudia Vanner

Meg Walden

Fiona Wallace

Kate Woolerton

Cara Wynne

Fairplayer of the Year Award:

A senior student who plays a team sport and has shown the highest level of sportsmanship and fair play both on and off the court/field and is voted for by the Sports Council

Kate Woolerton

Student Umpire of the Year Award

Sabina East

Chatfield Cup for Coaching Excellence

Awarded to a Dio team coach for all-round commitment and outstanding coaching ability.

Gary Robertson - Rowing

Sports Leadership Award

Awarded to a senior student who has made an exceptional contribution as a leader in one or more areas of sport.

Georgia Bodle

Patterson Trophy for the Senior All-Rounder of the Year

Awarded to the senior student in Year 11, 12 or 13 who has the most outstanding achievements across a range of sporting endeavours. The recipient must have reached a high level in one or more codes and been involved in at least three sports.

Lucy Vellenoweth

Hall of Fame

Year 13 students who have achieved New Zealand selection in their sport while at school in an age group U16 and above

Emily Irvine - Multisport

Courtney King - Cycling

Olivia King - Cycling

McKenzie Milne - Cycling

Eva Parkinson - Cycling

Claudia Vanner - Cycling

Team of the Year Shield

Awarded for the most outstanding performance by a school sports team during the year.

Presented to the student leaving school with the best sporting record, who has been active in many disciplines and gained outstanding success in at least one. She must also have been active over her whole sporting career and given something back to the school.

Emily Irvine

Sportswoman of the Year

Awarded to a senior student who has achieved North Island or New Zealand representative honours in the current sporting year and has achieved the most outstanding performance for the year.

McKenzie Milne

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Tickets to our Sports Awards evening are now on sale! Below you will find a list of those students who are receiving awards.

The Awards Evening is a formal function at which we celebrate and acknowledge our top sportspeople in the school. The awards presented during the evening include Junior Sports Blues, Senior Sports Blues, Sports Service Awards, all sports codes awards and the major awards including - Sportswomen of the year, Leavers Cup, All-rounder of the year, Junior Sports Award, Team of the Year and Sportsmanship Award.

The guest speaker this year is old girl and Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Tarryn Davey and we look forward to hearing about her experiences in the Black Sticks.

The evening will be held on Wednesday 24 October 2018, in the Waikato Diocesan Gymnasium. Doors open at 6.00pm and the award presentations will begin promptly at 6.30pm. Tickets are $45 per person for everyone attending - parents, carers, family, students, and this includes a buffet meal and some alcohol and non-alcoholic beverage.

The tickets for this event are now on sale at the School Shop (these are non-refundable). You can also ring the shop and pay over the phone (07 855 2038 ext 2766). Please note the school shop will be open on Friday 12 October if you wanted to purchase tickets in the holidays.

We hope that you will be able to join us for this function to celebrate Waikato Diocesan Sport in 2018.

Sports Award Recipients 2018

Sports Award Recipients 2018

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In Term 4 we will be holding our annual Sports Awards evening which is an opportunity to showcase the wonderful sporting talent within our school.

The awards presented during the evening include Junior Sports Blues, Senior Sports Blues, Sports Service Awards, all sports codes awards and major awards including - Sportswoman of the Year, Leavers Cup, All-Rounder of the Year, Junior Sports Award, Team of the Year and Sportsmanship Award.

We have now opened up the Sports Awards and Blues Application form for our winter sporting codes. The winter sport season and judging / performance period involves those winter codes that have taken place in 2018. The application for summer codes is now closed.

Please find our Blues Criteria attached below which will give you a guide on the benchmark for the Junior and Senior Blues Awards. You will also find the application form below which must be completed in order to be considered for awards. All applications will need to be received by 3pm, Friday 31st August 2018.

In May we had a number of Cyclists compete at the WaiBop Road Cycling Champs at Paterangi in Te Awamutu. Well done to all who competed in particular we would like to acknowledge those who crossed the line in the top 3 for their age group at this event:

The WSS Gymsports Champs were held in June and Waikato Dio sent seven students to compete in this event and they produced some great results! Congratulations to those girls who gained a top 3 placing in their division highlighted below. For a full list of results then please clink on the attachment below.

Our Cross Country runners headed to Taupo on Wednesday to compete in the WaiBop Cross Country Champs which was a great opportunity to run the course that the NZSS Champs will be held on. Our students as always did us proud and gained some fantastic results.

Below are the top 10 individual placings as well as our team results and you will also find attached a full outline of the results.

In a first for Dio we took a team of runners over to Tauranga to compete in the Bay of Plenty / Mid Island Cross Country Champs which was an excellent warm up for our own WAIBOP Champs next week and then the NZSS Champs.

Being from out of the region we couldn't officially place in the event however we did come home with some excellent results. Well done to all involved! Below is an outline of the our top ten individual results and also our team results which is a combination of top three or top six individual placings:

Year 9 Girls

Hannah Hull 4th / 38

Charlotte Ulyatt 6th / 38

3 Person Team (3 to score) - 2nd overall

6 Person Team (6 to score) - 1st overall

U16 Girls

Bree Scott - 8th / 27

3 Person Team (3 to score) - 2nd overall

Senior Girls

Emma Barton - 3rd / 23

Ele Barton - 4th / 23

Lucy Farrell - 5th / 23

Georgia Crane - 7th / 23

3 Person Team (3 to score) - 1st overall

Please click on the link below to view a full list of the results in each age group.

This Friday we are excited to be hosting Auckland Dio in the 50th Anniversary of this Sports and Cultural exchange.

Auckland Dio will be welcomed with a Powhiri in the Chapel before the competition begins. The day will showcase our athletes as well as our debaters and choir. Last year Waikato Dio sadly did not retain the all important shield so we are hoping to win this back at home this year.

We would love to see our parents and supporters cheering us on and have included the programme below for your reference and the teams competing are listed below. Tea and Coffee for our parents and supporters will be available in the Sunshine Room (next to Hockey turf) throughout the day also. Play hard, play fair and go Waikato!

Premier Badminton

1st XI Football

Junior A Football

1st XI Hockey

2nd XI Hockey

Junior A Hockey

Open A Netball

Development Netball

11A Netball

10A1 Netball

9A1 Netball

Junior and Senior Debating

Auckland Dio Exchange Program 2018

Auckland Dio Exchange Program 2018

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Our awesome swimmers headed to Palmerston North last weekend to compete in the NISS Swim Champs and despite having a smaller team than usual they still excelled and took out top girls school and were equal top school overall! Well done to the following girls on your top three placings and to all our swimmers on this fantastic achievement!

Congratulations to all our swimmers who were involved in the WSS Swim Championships which were held in Te Awamutu on 10th April. We would particularly like to acknowledge the girls highlighted below on their top three placings. For a full list of results please click on the Results link at bottom of the page.

Baker Cup for the most committed, reliable and enthusiastic sports person with a positive attitude

and responsibleatboat loading and unloading

Emma Barker

Lisa Britton Cup for the rower with the most points based on starts- 1st, 2nd or 3rd throughout full season

Sophie Reeves

Krielen Cup awarded to a senior rower who has shown resilience, determination and commitment to

rowing over four years. They display good leadership, mentoring to the junior members of

the club, uphold the ideals of Dio Rowing and have achieved high-performance levels in their

own rowing.

Olivia Morgan

Snowsports

Jarvis Cup for Most Promising Skier

Zoe Ryan

Jarvis Cup for Most Outstanding Skier

Arabella Mitchell

Squash

Most improved novice squash player

Catherine Fincham

Bunn Cup for Most improved squash player in the top senior team

Aleisha Coombes

Bunn Trophy for the most outstanding squash player

Caitlin Evison

Tennis

Hodgson Cup for Excellence in Tennis

Grace McCartney

McCartney Cup for Excellence in Junior Tennis

Zoe Clapcott

Touch Rugby

Most Improved Touch Player

Rachel Mackenzie

Young Trophy for most outstanding touch player

Tiana Thompson

Thompson Trophy for most outstanding contribution to Dio Touch

Amreeta Singh

Volleyball

Most outstanding Volleyball player

Grier Gardyne

Water polo

Trophy for the most promising Junior Water polo player

Jessica Falconer

Trophy for contribution to Water polo

Stevie MacDonald

Trophy for the most outstanding Water polo player

Teri MacDonald

Sporting Excellence Awards

These are awarded to students who have excelled on a national or international level in a sports code which is not an official Waikato Diocesan school sport or they do not compete on a school team. Because Dio is not involved in the coordination of their sport they do not qualify for School Blues Awards. With these awards, we recognise and acknowledge their outstanding achievements.

Brooke Mahaffey - Cheerleading

Nina White - Boxing

Zeta Hittmann - Rock Climbing

Alyxandra Jones - Snooker

We would also like to acknowledge our Get2Go team who are also not eligible for Blues as the team is combined with St Paul's Collegiate. The following students have qualified for the Get2Go Nationals which will take place on Great Barrier Island in December.

Arna Morris, Zeta Hittmann, Ele Barton and Emma Barton

Senior Blues (Years 11, 12 and 13) who have excelled in their sports code.

Major Awards

Junior Sports Cups

Awarded to students in each year level with the best all-round sporting record, worked hard in school PE, represented and excelled in at least one school sport and been fully involved in all aspects of the school sports programme.

Awarded to a junior sportswoman who has excelled in sport both at school and at regional or national level:

This year we have an outstanding recipient who has excelled in her chosen sport at both regional and national level including 11 gold medals at the NZSS Swim Championships. She has been awarded Junior Blues, the Wilson Cup for Excellence in Swimming and is our Intermediate

Swim Champion. She was part of the New Zealand Swim team which competed at the Australia Age group Swim Championships, where she won two silver medals and broke her own NZ record in the 400 IM.

Senior Sports Shield

The Senior Sports Shield is awarded to Year 13 students who have achieved their blues in their final year of school.

Grace Ritchie

Hannah Knighton

Tiffani Hickey

Hannah Foster

Katie Blunsdon

Lara Dashfield

Hannah King

Holly Anaru

Annabelle Cadogan

Jaspriya Kang

Katie White

Kyla Abrahamson

Brooklyn Dunn

Olivia Morgan

Ali Wilshier

Jess Chapman

Sophie Lewis

Grace McCartney

Fairplayer of the Year Award

Awarded to a senior student who plays a team sport and has shown the highest level of sportsmanship and fair play both on and off the court/field and is voted for by the Sports Council

Annabel Nesdale

This year’s recipient has been a role model to all her peers this year. She always comes to training and games with a smile on her face and a positive attitude which rubs off on her teammates. She was the captain of the 2nd XI hockey team and a member of the Dio Red netball team who won their grade. She shows respect to her teammates and to her competitors and has also given back to sport at Dio over the years through coaching, including this year where she co-coached the Dio Red hockey team.

Student Umpire of the Year Award

Sabina East

Sabina has been excelling as a Hockey umpire this season and has ticked off some fantastic achievements including:

- Waikato Secondary School A Grade Girls Final

- U15A Girls Tri Series

- U13 Development Girls Tri Series

- Club Women's Division 2 Final

- Waikato Secondary School B Grade Girls Final

- Intermediate A Grade Final

- 2XI Boys Tournament Semi-Final

- 2XI Boys Tournament Final

-Under 13 Collier Girls Tournament Final and was presented with the Best Umpire of the Tournament Trophy

- Umpired numerous school games including school exchanges, and rescheduled competition games.

Student Coach of the Year Award

Hannah King and Holly Anaru

This year Hannah and Holly chose to step up into the role of coach for our Gymsports team of approximately 30 students when they really needed someone to. Hannah and Holly choreographed the routine, created the music, and organised the team in their own time out of school. They organised regular training in the dance room as well as booking sessions at other venues where they have the real gymnastics floor. They helped guide the team in all technical aspects and execution of the routine and they organised and bought the costumes and makeup. After lots of hours during lunch and before school training, the team's hard work paid off as they won the NZSS Gymsports Nationals for team performance.

Sports Leadership Award

Awarded to a senior student who has made an exceptional contribution as a leader in one or more areas of sport.

Hannah Knighton

Hannah has been an outstanding role model and leader this year. Although she is extremely focussed on her own sporting goals, Hannah still puts significant time to all of the sport at Dio. This was evident when she was at the World Tri Champs and was still contacting the

sports office about the coordination of this awards evening and other events. Hannah’s quiet strength and passion for her sport rubs off on the girls. At events she always finds time to support others while also concentrating on her own performance, she is such a proud Dio girl

and her leadership of the sports council has been exceptional as she is highly organised, manages events well and is very inclusive ensuring all members are involved.

Hall of Fame

Hannah Knighton - Multisport

Grace Ritchie - Cross Country

Patterson Trophy for the Senior All-Rounder of the Year

Awarded to the senior student in years 11, 12 or 13 who has the most outstanding achievements across a range of sporting endeavours. The recipient must have reached a high level in one or more codes and been involved in at least three sports.

Hannah Knighton

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The Leavers Cup

Presented to the student leaving school with the best sportingrecord.This student has been active in many disciplines and gained outstanding success in at least one. She must also have been active over her whole sporting career and given something back to the school.

Hannah Knighton

out Hannah’s time at Dio she has excelled in a number of disciplines, Cross-country, Swimming, Cycling and Multisport. She has won numerous regional and national titles (too many to list in fact) as an individual and in the teams, she has been involved in.

Chatfield Cup for Coaching Excellence

Awarded to a Dio team coach forall-aroundcommitment and outstanding coaching ability

Jessie Taane, Julie Paterson and Dave Spring

This year we have jointly awarded this Cup. The recipients of this award have shown dedication and commitment to their teams through the season and have provided their teams with the skills and knowledge to perform and obtain results at the highest level.

Team of the Year Shield

Awarded for the most outstanding performance by a school sports team during the year.

Open A Netball Team

In the most participated sport in Secondary Schools, Sport Waikato were impressed with the level of achievement this team has made. In order to compete at the NZSS they had to qualify by finishing in the top six at the Upper North Island Secondary Schools Championships where over 100

teams compete playing 10 games over five days. The 4th place at this event saw them off to Nationals where they played the best schools from around NZ and finished 5th. The achievements of this team at both UNISS and NZSS are the best result our Open A has produced in 21 years and their placing at NZSS is the best result by a Waikato Secondary School in 13 years.

Sportswoman of the Year

Awarded to a senior student who has achieved North Island or New Zealand representative honours in the current sporting year and has achieved the most outstanding performance for the year.

Hannah Knighton

-Member of our winning NZSS Cross-country 3 man Senior Girls Team-Winner of the U20 Girls Criterium at NISS-Captain of the Senior A Cycling Team who came 3rd at NISS in the Time Trial then went on to win the event at NZSS.

-Gold in the NZSS U19 Girls Individual Triathlon, Teams Triathlon (Cyclist), Mixed Tag Team -Triathlon, Girls Aquathlon, Girls Duathlon-5th in the world at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Rotterdam!

Please find below a list of the recipients for our Sports Awards this year. Congratulations to all who are receiving an award.

The Awards Evening is a formal function where we celebrate and acknowledge our top sportspeople in the school. The ceremony will include a buffet meal, a guest speaker, and the presentation of awards. The awards presented during the evening include: Junior Sports Blues; Senior Sports Blues; Sports Service Awards; all sports codes awards and the major awards including - Sportswoman of the year, Leavers Cup, All-rounder of the year, Junior Sports Award, Team of the Year and Sportsmanship Award.

The Sports Awards Evening will be held on Wednesday 25th October 2017, in the Waikato Diocesan Gymnasium. Doors open at 6.00pm and the award presentations will begin promptly at 6.30pm. Tickets are $45.00 per person for all attending (parents, carers, family and students)

Our 2017 school theme is “Wai Ora’ and in the interest of promoting “wellness” we will not have a Bar but will be providing some alcohol and non- alcoholic drinks as part of your ticket price.

The tickets for this event are now on sale at the School Shop. You can also ring and pay over the phone on 07 855 2038 ext 2766.

Our swimmers have had an amazing year, they have won WSS, NISS and now the NZSS Champs! They were top female school and top school overall at the NZSS Champs which were held in Hamilton from the 15th - 17th September. Well done all our swimmers on your outstanding combined results which saw you crowned champs!

Please see below a break down of our swimmers wonderful top ten placings including our impressive results in the relay.

Jess Chapman

9th 200m Breastroke

7th 200m Freestyle

10th 100m Freestyle

5th 50m Breaststroke

Sophie Lewis

2nd 100m Freestyle

4th 50m Freestyle

8th 50m Fly

5th 400m Freestyle

Grace Soo Choon

3rd 300m Fly

3rd 100m Fly

5th 50m Fly

Maddi Chapman

4th 50m Breaststroke

9th 200m IM

8th 400m Freestyle

Sarah Miller

4th 200m Freestyle

6th 100m Freestyle

2nd 200m Fly

2nd 200m IM

2nd 100m Fly

3rd 200m Backstroke

6th 100m Backstroke

8th 50m Fly

3rd 400m Freestyle

Freya Sirl

6th 200m Freestyle

5th 400m Freestyle

Gina McCarthy

1st 200m Breaststroke

1st 200m Freestyle

1st 200m IM

1st 200m Backstroke

1st 100m Freestyle

1st 100m Breaststroke

1st 100m Backstroke

1st 50m Breaststroke

1st 400m Freestyle

4th 50m Freestyle

Holly Isaac

2nd 50m Backstroke

4th 200m Backstroke

1st 100m Backstroke

Charlize Tordoff

4th 50m Backstroke

3rd 50m Freestyle

6th 100m Backstroke

9th 50m Fly

Hannah Morgan

6th 200m Breaststroke

7th 50m Backstroke

2nd 100m Breaststroke

3rd 50m Breaststroke

5th 200m Backstroke

Kelly Lewis

7th 50m Backstroke

5th 100m Freestyle

7th 100m Fly

10th 50m Freestyle

4th 50m Fly

Sarah Wilson

2nd 200m Breaststroke

4th 100m Breaststroke

5th 200m IM

10th 100m Fly

7th 50m Fly

Relays

Female 16 & Over 200 LC Meter Medley Relay - 3rd

Female 15 & Under 200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay - 1st

Female 15 & Under 200 LC Meter Medley Relay - 1st

Female 16 & Over 200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay - 1st

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Dio was well represented at the recent Waikato Secondary Schools Gymsports Championships on 14th June. Well done to all who competed but in particular we would like to congratulate the following girls on their placings at the Championships:

Congratulations to the following girls who dominated at the recent WaiBop Teams Duathlon held at Lake Karapiro.

U14

1st - Lydia Ryan and Ellie Deane

2nd - Hannah Morgan and Charlize Tordoff

U16

1st Holly Mills and Charli Herbert

2nd - Emma Barton and Lucy Farrell

3rd - Emily Carlson and Megan Spring

U19

1st - Emily Irvine and Hannah Knighton

2nd - Georgia Bodle and McKenzie Milne

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After taking out the WSS Champs our swimmers have now gone one further and took out top school overall at the NISS Swimming Champs in Palmerston North last weekend. Congratulations to all of you on your outstanding results. We have highlighted top ten placings however for a full list of results then click on the link below.